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City police were investigating a shooting Monday afternoon at the Old Town Mall, the blighted outdoor shopping center that officials have pledged to redevelop. The shooting was reported at around 1:30 p.m., and the police said a man had been shot in the leg. At the scene, an overturned bicycle lay near a barber shop at the mall's east end, and police shut down Monument Street as an extension of the crime scene. A man was handcuffed and sitting on a curb inside the crime scene tape, while two blocks south officers placed another handcuffed man into a squad car and drove away.

The loud knock came about 2 a.m., and Dante Wooding roused himself. He saw police lights flashing through his window. Downstairs, a friend was at the front door. "Najee's gone," the friend said. Dante looked at his mother, who was crying. Najee Thomas was just 14. He lived across the street in a small brick Cherry Hill rowhouse with his mother. But he practically roomed with 15-year-old Dante. He was over all the time playing Grand Theft Auto or crashing supper. He had just been laughing on Dante's steps Monday evening with a small group of friends, who had been making fun of Najee's dance moves.

A man was killed and a woman was injured Thursday afternoon in a Southwest Baltimore corner store, marking the city's 10th homicide in the first nine days of the year. The shooting took place just before 3 p.m. at the Latino Deli and American Grocery at Christian and South Smallwood streets in the Carrollton Ridge neighborhood. Neighbors said the store was operated by a man everyone called "Papi. " Police have not identified the victims, but neighbors said the store operator and two of his relatives were in the store when the shots were fired.

Two men were killed in shootings about two miles and a few hours apart in Northwest Baltimore Monday evening, continuing a bloody start to 2014 that has seen eight killings in the first six days. Around 7:48 p.m., a man was shot in the city's Greenspring neighborhood, police said. He was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police initially reported the location of the shooting as in the 4400 block of Pall Mall Road but on Tuesday said investigators believe the original crime scene was located in the 3000 block of Oakford Ave. Police have no suspects in the shooting and have not identified the man killed.

Three men were shot - two fatally - in two separate incidents that occurred within hours in the same East Baltimore neighborhood, police said. The first shooting was reported about 1:10 p.m. in the 2000 block of Kennedy Ave. near Cecil Elementary School and north of Green Mount Cemetery in East Baltimore's Midway neighborhood. A police spokeswoman said one victim was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was pronounced dead about 2 p.m. at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police identified Baltimore residents Brian Michael Birden, 21, and Michael Anthony Carter, 24, as the victims in the shooting.

Baltimore prosecutors have resurrected charges dropped six years ago against a convicted sex offender, a rare move that comes as the man's latest trial is set to begin after a series of acquittals on recent accusations. Nelson Bernard Clifford, who served prison time for a sex assault conviction in 1997, has faced three rape trials in recent years after authorities said he was linked to the crimes through DNA. Clifford has taken the stand in each case and testified that the encounters were consensual, and prosecutors have obtained convictions for lesser property crimes.

Susan Burke, the attorney representing the victim of an alleged rape at the U.S. Naval Academy, recently filed an action in federal court to bar the academy's superintendent from deciding whether the case proceeds to a court-martial ( "Lawsuit seeks removal of Naval Academy superintendent from sex assault case," Sept. 5). The suit alleges he should be removed due to bias because, among other things, he did not make the hearing officer stop abusive questioning of the alleged victim.

The awkwardness was out in full force, affecting just about everyone in Miami. Nikki shows up high to a crime scene and is kicked out by Masuka (we still don't know why Nikki is even in this season). Vogel and her son, Saxon, reunite for breakfast to discuss how he won't stop killing innocent people (reminding her that he killed her other son). Dexter, Harrison and Hannah plan to move to Argentina, to be as family-like as possible when two of them are serial killers. Dexter and Batista have a bro-hug.

How would you feel if you were drugged and the last thing you saw before you slid into oblivion was your ex-girlfriend serial killer (who you had put in jail) striding toward you? I think it's safe to say -- not good. Hannah McKay makes quite an entrance at the end of the episode, doing just that, but there were many other cliffhangers tonight. Sweet Harrison confronts Dexter about lying, pulling out his stuffed toy dog that Dexter said was lost -- the one covered in the blood of Andrew Briggs, whom Dexter had killed.

By Justin George and Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | July 26, 2013

Two men were shot – one fatally -- in the East Baltimore neighborhood of McElderry Park early Friday morning, city police reported. One man was shot in the head and died at a local hospital. A second was shot in the back and survived, police said. He was listed in stable condition. They were found in the 2700 block Jefferson Street shortly after 1:30 a.m. Police do not have any suspects or motives. At the intersection of Jefferson Street and North Belnord Avenue later in the morning, police investigators were gone but crime scene tape remained tied to rowhouse window air conditioners.